Staring Contest at The Webby Awards

Jun 25, 2010

Ira writes:

Here's what I learned watching OK Go shoot this video:

1) When the Muppets are ready to stop performing (at least in a
setting like the Webbys) before the puppeteer takes his hand out of
the muppet, someone puts a black satin bag over the Muppet, so no one
has the unpleasant experience of seeing the Muppet lifeless. I
think maybe that's for our sake, not for the Muppets'.

2) Those Muppet guys are geniuses. I mean you know that already,
but to see them lying under a desk actually DOING it, ad-libbing the
big eye blinks after the staring contest, which is such a fantastic
piece of character work and comedy, it's very exciting.

3) Zach Galifianakis: What a nice man, to be waiting backstage at
the Webbys and allow himself to be dragged into this kind of thing by
a group of complete strangers. Afterward, I talked to him about
chicken farming in North Carolina, which apparently is our one mutual
interest.